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This is a selection out of the contents of Oedipus, the biannual psychoanalytic journal which has been founded in 2009 and is still edited by the two of us, in Athens, Greece.
The aim and task to reach an international audience has been at the very core of the Oedipus project since its beginnings, 11 years ago. Still, the length of time it took for this task to get fulfilled, is the quantitative measure of all kinds of resistances, beginning from our own (the editors') ones. We all have phantasies that our “great” insights will somehow become widely known. Like the Winicottian infant, or like the Sophoclean Philoctetes, we all hide in our cave, and look forward being “discovered” by a good mother or a reparative other.
Still, in spite of this belatedness, as one browses, for instance, through the interviews of the issues 1 & 2, and however outdated they may seem, they are, paradoxically, very fresh at the same time. Analytical approaches are by definition acquainted with this kind of “timelessness”.
Psychoanalysis in Greece is both old (since the 1930's of Marie Bonaparte, Dimitris Kouretas and Andreas Embirikos) and new (since the founding of the Hellenic Psychoanalytic Society, in ).
Although the language barrier is not a small hindrance, the thrust of Greek analysts to have their work internationally read is, finally, proven stronger.
Hopefully in the next 2-3 years we will progressively be able to achieve our goal to have the Greek publication shortly followed by its English version.
All texts have been more or less slightly edited and at times updated by their authors, and have been translated by Stephen John Taylor. The paper by Petros Hartocollis was translated by Andrew Watson.
& (2020). Editorial. Oedipus Annual 1/2020: 5.